Meeting People Where They Are: Bojayá, Colombia

The small town of Bojayá is only accessible by boat, but that does not stop HAI from providing emergency assistance to the community in need.

Helping Dominicans of Haitian Descent Secure Legal Documents

HAI has worked in the D.R. for nearly a decade, documenting and responding to the urgent needs of stateless individuals and those at risk of statelessness, like Anita.

Statement of Solidarity with the People of Afghanistan

Heartland Alliance urges world leaders to commit to protect civilians and increase refugee support and resettlement pathways for the people of Afghanistan.

Kovler Center Pantry Drive!

The Marjorie Kovler Center’s food pantry is running low on stock. Please help us restock our shelves and continue to provide emergency food assistance to survivors of torture and trauma in Chicago.

Delivering Sexual & Reproductive Health Services to Refugees from Venezuela

In Colombia, HAI delivers sexual & reproductive health services directly to the people that need it most – vulnerable women and girls from Venezuela.

Heartland Alliance International Update re: COVID-19

HAI is taking steps to help slow the potential spread of the virus while also ensuring participants receive the critical care they need.

HEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL

Heartland Alliance International (HAI) implements programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and in Chicago at the Marjorie Kovler Center. HAI’s technical areas include mental health and psychosocial support, gender equity, access to justice, and stigma-free HIV prevention, care, and treatment. Across all programs, HAI promotes progressive, innovative approaches to human rights protections and gender equity. Our mission is to secure the rights and well-being of marginalized people and communities.

HAI achieves this mission by focusing on specialized mental health and psychosocial support and access to legal services for people who have been victims of violence and human rights abuses. We ensure the safety of these individuals and empower them to actively engage in their communities and drive social change.

HAI believes there can be no healing without justice, and no justice without healing.

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Marjorie Kovler Center

The Marjorie Kovler Center is an expert leader in trauma-informed care for survivors of torture and serves as a trusted resource of integrated treatment and services to reach vulnerable populations – asylee, immigrant and refugee adults, children and families, unaccompanied minors, survivors of forced displacement and trafficking, and immigrant and refugee survivors of crime once in the US.
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Latin America and the Caribbean

In Latin America and the Caribbean, HAI leverages its decades of experience to address local needs through a community-based human rights framework. In the Dominican Republic and Colombia, HAI provides legal and mental health services to hard to reach populations, including indigenous communities, internally displaced people, individuals vulnerable to statelessness, and Venezuelan migrants and refugees.
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Middle East and North Africa

In 2004, HAI launched its first Middle East and North Africa program to mitigate the humanitarian implications of ongoing political instability and armed conflict. Today, HAI's programs in Iraq and Lebanon prioritize the needs of vulnerable groups, including women, children, religious and ethnic minorities, internally displaced people, refugees, and survivors of torture, human trafficking, gender-based violence, and other forms of trauma.
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Sub-Saharan Africa

With programming in Cote d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria, HAI responds to the urgent needs of populations vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, and armed conflict. Across all programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, HAI provides mental health services to survivors of trauma and empowers women, girls, and the LGBTQI+ community to assert their rights and drive change in their communities
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